تصویر درد
یہ استغنا ہے، پانی میں نگوں رکھتا ہے ساغر کوتجھے بھی چاہیے مثل حباب آبجو رہنا
English translation
Contentment is what keeps the cup submerged in water. You should also remain like the bubble in the stream.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
استغنا: بے پروائی ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 58 of 69 in “تصویر درد” (Picture of Pain) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۵۸ / ۶۹